I'm using command debuild -b to package my application into a .deb. When it goes to run dh_makeshlibs, many shared libraries' names are added in debian/my-package/DEBIAN/shlibs. But some of them are ...

My application needs some shared libraries, say libabc.so.1.0. I need to package this shared libriary into my .deb. Where should I put it? And tell the application where to find it if libabc.so.1.0 ...

I've just installed the blast-2.2.30+ package; when I tried to run it, it threw the following error:
blastn: error while loading shared libraries: libbz2.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such ...

I need to install the lapack library in an ubuntu computer for linking to a code I am developing.
I have been told to apt-get install liblapack3, but the only one I found is liblapack3gf. My list of ...

I wrote an application using Qt 4.8.4. Now I purchased a new PC and installed Kubuntu 14.10 based on Qt 4.8.6.
To develop my application, I built Qt 4.8.4 from source using make install and that went ...

In Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS 64-bit I am installing MEEP. I already installed all the dependicies stated in the website; however although I set LDFLAGS and CPPFLAGS as indicated in the installation page the ...

I installed doxygen and doxygen-doc. The man page for doxygen tells me to get doxygen-doc for more information.
I found the doxygen-doc in my usr/share/doc, but its a compressed archive. So how can I ...

In attempting to revisit my childhood and play Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri again on Linux (something which I accomplished successfully a few years back), I've run into a stubborn error. The Loki port ...

i have installed blas and atlas by the following commands
sudo apt-get install libatlas-base-dev
sudo apt-get install libopenblas-dev
But I am using a library which internally make use of it, while ...

I am wondering if there is a method to list folders and files from different folders or drives, like there is in Windows. There you can create a "library" and "merge" different folders to one.
Thanks ...

I have old version of VLC installed (depends on libeml3, libmatroska5) and want to install latest one (depends on libeml4, libmatroska6) without deleting previous but get errors about these libraries ...

I am trying to install the "libh3dapi". When I run the "cmake ." command in the build folder of H3DAPI is runs fine. But when I try to run "make", it runs for sometime and gives the following error at ...

I need to run dtk (http://trackvis.org/) on my ubuntu 14.04 but when I try to execute dtk I get the error
error while loading shared libraries: libtiff.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such ...

Is it possible to extract a statically linked library from an executable (e.g. turn it into an .so file), when I have the .h header file declaring the symbols?
I also already have the .so file, but ...

I hear that this library file might not exist in the repositories since a few past editions ago, but I really need this version of libgtk for a manual installation of a run file, cannot find it with ...

I'm trying to run a Total English digital book, an app I need for my work. Upon running I get this message:
error while loading shared libraries: libidn.so.11: cannot open shared object file: No such ...

I've been using Ubuntu for a couple of years now and a problem that I consistently come across is with linking against particular versions of shared object files. For example, I'm trying to install ...

EDIT: Found the answer -- the binary is 32bit, I was installing 64bit libraries. Installing like sudo apt-get install libsdl1.2debian:i386 works.
I'm trying to get Dwarf Fortress to work under Ubuntu ...

In my case I build nginx from source and I want to confirm whether I need to rebuild it whenever a new OpenSSL update is released. From what I understand either of these two commands can be used to ...

I have a question about using libraries on Linux. Lets say I have a program called MYPROG and two libraries LIBABC.SO and LIBXYZ.SO. MYPROG loads the module LIBABC.SO with "dlopen RTLD_NOW". "dlopen" ...

I would like to get interleaved source code and assembly code for a number of .so shared objects using "objdump -S" command. However, it seems that the installed libraries on my machine do not include ...